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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    yep, you are right, since 2002 the USD has lost a third of its value... bond buyer's' principal is getting butchered and they likely dont even know what is happening
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    Paulson hits back at ‘superfund’ critics

    everyone is missing the hidden meaning of the fund.... I believe it is there to purchase asset backed paper from money market funds if there is a big run on one..... if a fund breaks the buck, it could lead to a catastrophe if everyone tries to cash out at once and the funds can find no...
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    decent summary of how CPI is political arithmetic http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070930/news_1b30inflate.html
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    let's look at the results of the old calculations and the current bullshit... conveniently. the CPI gets understated from what was accepted pre Clinton era math..... too much of a coincidence and the fact that GDP gets overstated as a result of price deflators being too low... bottom...
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    brush your tooth and go to bed.......
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    Hey Vol, you have the credentials to appear on Kudlow's show...
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    btw, foreign banks soak up US debt to keep interest rates low so the US consumer will continue to buy all the plastic WalMart crap from Asian exporters... since foreign central banks dont have to show profit or loss on debt holdings, they can print enough money to buy all the US debt they...
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    How Dumb are T-Bond Investors?

    99.9% of the US population wouldn't understand what your numbers mean btw, I think street level inflation is running around 8%
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    If you go into Cash where do you guys put it?

    anything but the us dollar
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    Will Ben cut 25 or 50 bp on Halloween?

    Bennie Boy is a student of the Great Depression - he'll print until the green ink is gone... M3 is still growing skyward.... 25 in oct., 25 in dec.
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    RE: Bond rally and government interest payments

    the US treasury is more than happy to sell bonds in a depreciating currency... it makes refi a profitable venture as long as there are suckers out there buying the crap... so let's say you buy a 2 year at par and you redeem the thing in a currency worth 85 cents at the end of 2 years...
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    What is driving oil prices so high?

    global cooling
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    Uncle Bennie (Ben Bernanke) has a warning for Wall Street...

    Should read, Bennie is Wall Street's bitch.....
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    Bernanke makes market moving comments after close

    telegraphing another cut or two....
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    Banks May Pool Billions to Stop Securities Sell-off

    the whole thing is bullshit... Citi is setting up a fund to buy no bid paper from itself..... price fixing at best....
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    A Bailout for Citigroup?

    it's panic in a 3 piece suit..........
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    December Gold (GCZ7)

    or go here and click on contract specs. http://futures.tradingcharts.com/
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    December Gold (GCZ7)

    go here http://futuresource.quote.com/reference/contspecs.jsp and then pick around the futuresource site for all things future
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    Fed cut 0.25% or hold interest rates?

    Japan Inc. keeps rates low to prevent the Yen from gaining on the Dollar..... plus Japanese are savers an will invest in 1% JGBs even though they can get 4-5% in treasuries Japan is a nationalistic country... i.e. there is no immigration and you cant apply to be a Japanese citizen...
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    IRS probing mortgage backed securities

    I'm thinking about renouncing my citizenship and becoming an illegal alien since they pay zero taxes
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